Chapter 13 – Episode 13 ― Are You Eating? (4)
Episode 13 ― Are you eating? (4)
At that moment, the sense of incongruity that was transmitted through her body made Roan’s mool goosebumps. Roan did a quick ‘detection’.
The feeling that dozens or hundreds of people are lined up for skill.
Fortunately, the range is wide, so it doesn’t seem to die as much as the power is diluted.
“… I think I ended up fainting…”
[It’s also a great potential. Roan feels the effects of the skill, right? It’s okay if there are no dead people. I’m just going to have lunch. Roan.]
“It’s so cold… ?”
[I am a sword. Whether it’s a human or a demon, it doesn’t matter if you die. Besides, he doesn’t have a stomach, but he kindly brings us lunch. To say I’m cold like this, Roan is cruel.]
“…”
Roan finished his training with a mixed heart.
Afterwards, Roan went in for lunch and noticed that the servants were strangely flustered. All the servants collapsed or fainted for unknown reasons, so the prepared dishes seemed to be all messed up. Seeing the chef apologizing for a late lunch and trembling in thought, Roan hesitated a few times whether or not to reveal that this was his fault.
After lunch was over after a brief commotion that swept through the castle, Roan headed for his original target of the prison. When he hung the sword on his sword belt, Fiora seemed to be asleep, and even when he touched his hand, she did not say anything. That allowed Roan to focus on the inspection he was supposed to do.
“Oops, Your Majesty?! Hwang, congratulations!”
With an exclamation that seemed to stop his breath, the warden prostrated himself on the cold stone floor. The Demon King, who was accompanied by Shikviena, who asked him to be sure to be called the next time he visited the business district under his jurisdiction, said dignifiedly to the warden.
“I will look around the whole thing. Guide me.”
The dark dungeon of the demon king. True to its name, the prison was filled with the smell of death. It was not as wide as I thought. Because few people last that long.
An incessant scream echoed from the depths of the prison as Roan walked down the long hallway, one side of which was barred. It was a cry of pain that seemed to take your breath away.
‘It’s a mess here too.’
The expressionless demon king frowned inwardly. He knows, of course, that it’s unreasonable to compare him to the modern prisons he’s been in. However, the facilities here were worse than Roan thought. It was because the attitude that it didn’t matter if the prisoners died was premised.
Even the slaves had to be kept alive to eat, so at least the minimum amount of food was given. However, prison is a place to get what the devil’s servants want by giving them pain.
So skipping meals is the norm, and the warden explained at length that brainwashing and torture are rampant.
Prisoners caught in an accident in Basel, the capital city, are usually killed on the spot (!) Or locked up in the capital’s prison. The King’s prison is a place where heinous criminals from all over the country, including Basel, are waiting for the king’s verdict, or prisoners who need to spit out information for political reasons are locked up.
“So we are using as technical a method as possible to get political prisoners to release information.”
“Our medicine men are experimenting day and night to develop various medicines, including the one you saw yesterday.”
The Warden and Shikviena explained the systematic torture system of the Devil’s Castle prison. Looking at the two with puppy-like expressions waiting for praise, Roan reluctantly nodded his head.
“Hmm. A lot of hard work.”
“Congratulations, Your Majesty.”
“Go, thank you!”
It’s a little complicated to have such a friendly conversation in front of a half-corpse. High-class prisoners captured from the battlefield with the current kingdom are tortured in this torture room and spit out information one by one.
The one in front of the demon king is a knight of the kingdom’s knights, and it is said that it is an officer-level knight of the unit commanded by the king’s son. He was already lying on the torture chair, looking a little distant from people. Part of the limbs were missing and the whole body was crushed. It’s not a pretty sight.
Roan and the others leave the torture chamber and walk through the corridor again.
‘Why wouldn’t this be scary?’
Roan gently stroked his chin with one hand.
Although he had seen many nasty things in the original world, he had never seen someone deliberately messing with a human body to this extent. It was the work of a larger organization.
However, it may be because there is a part where you feel a sense of unity with the demon king’s body in the game.
The Demon King was lost in thought for a moment. The praised corrections officer and the warden are excitedly waiting for the silence of the demon king.
“It looks like everyone in the prison, including you two, is working hard.”
“It’s too much praise, Your Majesty.”
Despite her modest words, Shykwiena’s face is full of bright smiles. Even that appearance overflows with the color of a succubus.
“What about the prisoner you just saw?”
When Shykvienna looked at the warden as if to report, he answered instead.
“Yes. The human knight you see now is in a state of physical skill after taking medicine, Your Majesty. We plan to deal with it after using a slightly stronger medicine.”
“What if processing? Are you going to kill me?”
“Even if we don’t kill them, most die after using the poison, Your Majesty. If you go to that stage without giving out information, it’s because there are very few body parts that are already healthy at that time. There is no need to keep them alive unless we give them the information we want.”
Upon hearing Roan’s question, Shikvienna’s expression became subtle. During the day yesterday, she was the closest among the subjects who saw the demon king’s actions.
‘She saved human slaves and told them to feed them in the slave quarters. She told me not to give her medicine to the human maid who was being treated. She sees a tortured human being here too, and asks what is going on.’
Her eyes sharpened.
As expected by Shykviena, the demon king spoke outrageous words that were difficult for the guards to accept at once.
“If possible, avoid killing human prisoners as much as possible in the future.”
“… Yes?”
The warden, who unknowingly asked in a daze, was taken aback by his words.
“Oh my God, I’m sorry! Your Majesty, I apologize!”
The warden trembled like an aspen tree and repeatedly apologized to the demon king. Roan gave him time to calm down, then went on with his words.
“If the plan is confirmed, it will be announced to everyone, but it is still difficult to reveal the reason. But keeping as many humans alive as possible will be an important part of what I am trying to do.”
It would be difficult to accept grandiose plans such as stopping the war right away, and it would be difficult to decide on such a thing without consultation with the servants. Roan vaguely explained the reason to the warden just as he had told Schikwiena yesterday.
“And as much as possible…”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Feed me.”
“… Yes?”
The warden, who inadvertently questioned the devil’s words, jumped up and put his head on the stone floor.
On the other hand, Shyk Vie I narrowed her eyes once more. Unlike the warden, she was not surprised this time.
The correctional officer seemed to be able to guess what his overlord was thinking. He quickly conveyed this story to a small meeting and wanted to hear your opinion.
The demon king’s voice was calm in answering the warden’s question.
“In the end, living things change their thinking when they are full. If there is a warm and comfortable moment on the back, people’s hearts will be relaxed. No matter how necessary it is to lock them up and harass them, isn’t it the duty of a living being to at least take care of their food properly?”
“Yes… , Yes.”
The warden with an incomprehensible expression nodded involuntarily.
“Even if you do torture, at least give proper food to those who are friendly to us, those who have been tortured once, and those who are my people.”
“Ah, I see.”
“Not something you can’t eat, but the right food.”
“I understand, Your Majesty.”
The Demon King’s orders are absolute. Now they won’t be eating mushy soup, rotting potatoes, or tough bread.
“And take a look at the rest. At least no one will die just because they were put in my prison.”
“Yes yes… , Your majesty.”
The head of the prison guard has a face that does not understand English. For him, prison was a place to kill.
In the world of demons, it is natural for the weak who have lost their strength to lose their lives to the guards watching over them. At least, as long as there is no useful corner such as giving out information, the beast person is just a person who eats rice. Better to kill them.
That is why the chief jailer did not understand the word “Take care of the sinners”, But it was the king’s order. The warden bowed his head and said he would follow his will.
Roan’s footsteps, which continued to stare at the inside of the prison as he walked down the corridor, stopped in one place.
“… Who is the author?”
“Ah, a serial killer caught near the border. They attacked our hunting people and burned a nearby private house, and were escorted to the capital’s prison for their crimes. Even in the middle of it, he is a very bad guy who keeps planning to escape.”
In the dark corner of the prison Roan pointed out, something like a lump was crouching. It looked like a person if you looked closely, but it was stained with blood, filth, and bruises, and it kept muttering something with a half-distraught expression on its face.
The prominent pointy ears are a symbol of forest fairies living in the forest. Other than that, I can’t tell at all from the present color whether it’s a man or a woman, or what the original face or hair color was.
But at least Roan knew who she was. Her likability that only Roan could see by floating next to her wasn’t just because the window was visible.
‘Oh my god… ! Yes, it must have been here.’
Originally, her detached team to save her princess, who was imprisoned in her prison, rescues her. And she later comes to beat the devil with the hero.
Fire fairy. Lauca. That was her name
The demon king, who continued to walk her hallway, stopped in front of her and asked who she was and looked inside her.
“Your Majesty, shall we take it out?”
“Hmm… Even if I take it out, what can I ask?”
At Roan’s question, the jailer lowered his head as if embarrassed.
“It seems difficult right now, Your Majesty.”
“Then, shikvienna.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Take care of it for a while, and when you are able to talk, bring it before me. It seems to be useful.”
“Yes.”
“And don’t use the last one.”
For a moment, the corrections officer’s shoulders trembled.
“… Yes, Your Majesty. Is there any way to do it?”
Hearing Schikwiena’s answer, the demon king left Lauca’s prison without delay. I looked at the entire prison, but it seems that there are no NPCs or named characters other than her that can be liked, such as princesses.
I’m glad you’re one Roan was relieved and left the prison.
The next place Roan headed was the inn where the servants stayed.
‘At least it’s better here.’
The first and second floors are flooded with light. The freshly swept and polished floor is shiny. Of course, that must have been the work of those servants lined up on both sides. At the other end of the line, I saw Diobe, who must have been off work today, standing with an expressionless face.
Except for her, her servants stand in her hallway, unable to hide her trembling body at the sudden visit of the demon king.
Roan felt a little sorry. No matter how much the generals went quietly to the quarters, the moment rumors spread just before that, everyone was running here and there with toothpaste and cleaning tools, and a similar situation would have unfolded here as well.
They are the ones who are trying hard not to be noticed by the demon king. It was probably hard work to have to stand in front of the demon king like this without being able to hide.
‘But from now on, we will have to face each other often. But I have to make sure there are no problems.’
Roan opened someone’s quarters. Although it is simple, the simple room with a bed and a uniform is tidy even though it has a feeling of use.
“Are there any problems with the provision of clothing and bedding?”
Of course, even if you ask like this, there is no way to get a proper answer.
“Yes, yes, Your Majesty. Everything is running without a hitch.”
A trembling voice barely answered. It was the second head of the butler Roan met.
‘Okay, Fiora told me to practice as usual.’
Recalling the advice of the demon sword, Roan stood next to the butler and saw the head maid following the demon king. She was a banshee with some faded hair. Roan raised her skill ‘Miheun’ very little and focused on her little point.
That moment,
“… Ah haha… !”
… The lady-in-waiting suddenly stumbled. Her alarmed head of the house supported her, and Sheek Viena, who was following her Roan, savagely slashed her axe-eyed.
‘Ahh!’
Roan groaned inwardly. The lady-in-waiting’s eyes, which she struggled to raise, were lifted halfway up her, unleashed by her pleasure.
